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Old Nov 16, 2003 | 03:15 PM
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Failure rate?

Yesterday when I put my truck up on the rack I noticed a couple distubing finds.

1. I have a slow leak from my front seal.

2. My differential has a slow leak as well. It took 2 quarts of gear oil to get it up to the plug level!

My question is this: With the truck being an 03 at 37K has anyone else run into these problems so early into it's life?
 
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Old Nov 16, 2003 | 06:58 PM
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Ya know, I noticed the same thing about my front seal:confused. I noticed oil on the steering linkage. Wiped it clean and fortunately I not seen it again. But that was only 2,000 miles ago that I found it.

I also had just switched to synthetic, so maybe that was it. No clue. I am keeping an eye on it.

Sean:
 
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Old Nov 17, 2003 | 10:53 AM
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I had to replace the rear pinion seal at about 30K - Never did figure out why it failed.
 
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